Gentle Beast Novel Chapter 76

Gentle Beast Chapter 76

The car traveled down the winding mountain road, accelerating then flowing into a free drift.

The rows of tall buildings were getting farther and farther away, covered with a thick mist until they disappeared into the mountains.

The sound of wind was loud and Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was stunned to the extre.

When Ryan said he could help her drive last ti, she thought he was just saying it casually and hadn’t taken it to heart.

Even if he could, it should only be as skilled as she was.

But now, he had only been behind the wheel for half an hour and after adjusting to it, he was completely at ease with it. . .

How did he learn?

When did he learn how to drift???

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u stared at Ryan in the driving seat and felt rather bad.

Luckily, she didn’t promise to let him drive in the city, she thought, or she’d be scared to death.

Ryan loosened his right hand on the steering wheel and stretched it out to Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s face, lightly touching her dropped jaw, and he asked with amusent, “Is this it?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u closed her mouth and turned to look. It was the cliff above the tree engraved with “1001.”

She nodded and turned big eyes at Ryan, rembering her questions, “Ryan, how did you learn to drive?”

Ryan opened the side door and circled around to pull Jǐ Xiǎo ??u from her seat and said honestly, “I didn’t learn.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u hugged his neck and found it difficult to understand, “Then how do you drive so well?”

Ryan: “It said in the box the other day.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was silent, then realized that Ryan ant the TV by “box.”

But when did she set the channel to one about driving?

Ryan saw she looked confused and closed the door then set her on top of the car, taking a bite, “When you gave the stupid cat a bath.”

“. . .” Jǐ Xiǎo ??u recalled it and finally understood how it happened.

That night she brought Gǔn Gǔn back, she had casually turned on the TV and went to the bathroom. Because Gǔn Gǔn was so lively, the sound of the TV stabilized everything.

Later, when she went tot he bathroom, she didn’t pay attention to the program.

Now that she thought of it, it seed to be a professional rally?

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u looked at Ryan’s eyes and glowed, her dark eyes bright, “Did you understand it?”

Ryan raised his brow and said it was easy.

This thought had such a great impact, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u didn’t think anything else could top it.

Then Ryan took out a rectangular case from the trunk and Jǐ Xiǎo ??u asked, “What is it?”

Ryan opened the case in front of her and said placidly, “A gun.”

. . .

!!!

When Jǐ Xiǎo ??u saw the thing in the box, her whole body was shocked frozen.

The box held three guns, their dark barrels exuding the unique coldness of the weapon.

Although Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s understandings of guns wasn’t that deep, she could recognize a pistol, a rifle and a sniper rifle. . .

The case was well equipped and there were two grenades in the corner.

“Ryan. . . where did you get this?” Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s voice changed and she asked incredibly.

Ryan pulled the pistol and tucked it into his waist, then left the rest in the case, “Black market.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “You even know the black market??”

——Where had he gone in the real world?

She rembered that he had always been with her and hadn’t gone out alone!

Ryan leaned over her little face and kissed the corner of her mouth, “Scaring you?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u nodded honestly, really afraid, “That. . . how did you buy it?”

Even if Jǐ Xiǎo ??u hadn’t been to the black market, she also knew that the transaction price wasn’t low, and Ryan was a beastman from another world, so he wouldn’t own any kind of currency.

Ryan said calmly, “Didn’t buy it.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u widened her eyes, “How did you get it?” Did he steal it?

Ryan curved his index finger and knocked it to her forehead to stall the chaos in her head. Of course, robbing wasn’t impossible, but the world’s legalities were too much. One error and it would involve Jǐ Xiǎo ??u, and he didn’t want to cause trouble for his little one.

Ryan: “Exchanged for it.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “Exchanged what?”

Ryan no longer answered, his deep voice full of temptation, “Be obedient. You do not want to know.”

The black market was free of the market’s natural laws. In that place, pillaging, killing, trafficking and violence ran rampant.

There were more ugly things there than in the beast world.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was slightly surprised. Seeing that Ryan wasn’t joking, she pulled his sleeve and asked, “Then tell , when did you start to go out alone?”

Ryan tacitly admitted, “The next day.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “. . .” In other words, he went out alone the day she went back to school. He promised her that he wouldn’t go out!

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was a little angry and silently put the car into her space then went down the cliff to the tree with her engraving.

Ryan picked her up from behind and his hand settled her head against his shoulder, “Do you not wnat to talk to ?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u didn’t utter a response.

Ryan rubbed her head with the palm of his hand, “Well, Little Darling?”

Since Ryan knew this was her nickna, he like dot call her that from ti to ti.

His voice was very low but the words “Little Darling” were spoken softly and even with the vibration in his chest, there was a different sort of gentleness in his words.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u bit his shoulders and complained, “Do you know how dangerous it is?”

Ryan pulled at the corner of his mouth and cooperated, “Now I know.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u loosened her bite and straightened out, her small hands holding his face, and she said seriously, “Then, promise . You won’t do it again.”

Those kinds of things were very dangerous, much more dangerous than the beast world, and what would she do if sothing happened to him?

Ryan, as if to see through her thoughts, reassured, “Rest assured, I will keep my life to take care of you.”

Hearing that, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u couldn’t help but rember what he had promised her father and couldn’t help but cry, “Ryan. . .”

Ryan walked to the edge of the cliff and, holding her hips, jumped down in a series of leaps and arrived under it, “Hm?”

She asked the question that had been suppressed in her heart for a long ti, “What did you say to my parents that day?”

They had been determined to take her to Ireland anyway, but Ryan had only talked for about an hour and they changed their minds.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was curious. Had the talk with her parents gone so well? How did Ryan do it?

Ryan stretched his long legs and headed for the tree, “You want to know?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u nodded forcefully.

Ryan’s hand reached into the upper pocket of his coat and took out a red book. “Rember what you told

that only the soldiers have the right to have a gun?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “I rember that.” But what did that have to do with persuading her parents.

Ryan set the book in her hands, “Later I understood that you humans seem to attach a great importance to military marriage.” After learning over the days, he knew what human “marriage” was.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u looked down and saw the red book cover was impressively written, “Military Certificate.”

“You. . .”

Ryan: “Open it and see.”

She obediently opened it and inside was a piece of paper. She unfolded it and incredulously found her and Ryan’s “marriage application.”

Her mouth dropped open in surprise. The information was accurate and even the seals at the bottom were without flaw!

Ryan: “If I’m not mistaken, it’s a cri to destroy a military marriage?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s head went blank and she tried to organize her words, “You. . .

how did you, this is fake. . .”

Ryan raised his brow, noncommittal.

She shook her head, “How could you deceive my parents. . .”

Ryan suddenly stopped and his pupils stared at her, “Or else? Wait for you to with them to so ghost place called Ireland?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “. . .”

Every ti when it ca to this problem, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was wrong. She laid her head on Ryan’s shoulder and thought. It seed there was nothing wrong.

Although the ans weren’t right, they only had this thod at the mont.

Now that she thought about it, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u finally understood why, the day after Ryan left, her mother refused to talk to her all day.

It was because she didn’t let her decide her wedding affairs!

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u felt very wronged, obviously she was the one that was “married”. . .

*

Standing under the “1002” tree, they were once again looking at the distant Camuda Valley spread out before them. Jǐ Xiǎo ??u actually had a treacherous illusion.

She and Ryan had been away for one and a half months, and it was still a cold winter. The rolling mountains were covered in snow and the whole of Bornia was still a vast expanse of white.

The snow blew on the wind and Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s nose was frozen red in an instant. Her hands and feet were tucked into Ryan’s embrace.

Ryan took off his overcoat and wrapped it around her, blocking her from the wind and carrying her toward the leopard tribe.

A man was standing on the lookout at the entrance of the race and saw a man wearing strange clothes coming towards him. He thought it was the wolf clan’s conspiracy and imdiately raised his spear, stabbing it forward as he said, “Stupid wolf, get back to your race!”

Ryan stepped to the side and extended his arm to throw the spear aside and his eyes narrowed.

“Fool, open your eyes and see who I really am.”

The other looked up at Ryan’s blue eyes and was surprised, “Chi-Chief?!”

. . .

During the ti Ryan was away, everything with the leopards was normal.

The last month there was continuous snowstorms, and it had buried the entire Camuda Valley. The surrounding tribes weren’t spared and moved to high ground. Fortunately, the blizzard finally stopped after a few days or the leopards would also have to move.

So when Jǐ Xiǎo ??u and Ryan ca back, all they could see was white.

Elder Berson and Winter led the clan to clean up the snow but because Ryan was away, no one dared to entire his yard. So, when Jǐ Xiǎo ??u opened the door, she was almost blown away by the flood of heavy snow.

Ryan managed to catch her in ti but the snow poured out the door for a long ti.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “. . .”

“Wait a minute, I’ll clean things up.” Ryan set her aside and called several people over to clean up.

Two hours later, the yard had been cleared of snow.

But the house had been without a fire for so long and it was as chilly as an ice house, uninhabitable by people.

Ryan temporarily had Jǐ Xiǎo ??u stay at Winter’s nearby house. Then he went about starting the fire in the house and the once it was ward up, he went to take her back.

Winter and Suzanna were both under the impression that Ryan had taken Jǐ Xiǎo ??u to the cave.

Suzanna even stared at her stomach and looked at her seriously for a ti, “Has Chief Ryan impregnated you?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s cheeks were rosy and she denied, “No. . .”

“Why did Ryan take you away?” Suzanna said, “You herbivores are so squeamish.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “. . .”

Speaking of that, Suzanna seed to be interested. She didn’t acknowledge Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s After a while, Suzanna turned her head and continued, “But, rather soon after Winter and I beca a pair, we had Wenrick. According to Ryan’s strength. . . wouldn’t he be more efficient than Winter?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “. . .”

Speaking of that, Suzanna seed interested and didn’t acknowledge Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s embarrassnt. She sat with her and her tail swayed in the air as she asked, “When you mate with Ryan, don’t you find it difficult? I’ve heard that. . . Ryan’s ,” she paused and said, “is very big. . .”

While saying that, she looked done at Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s slender hips.

——It wasn’t a matching size at all.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s expression was strange and she said after a long ti, “. . . how do you know?”

Suzanna confessed, “I heard from Winter that the n often swim in the back of the mountain. Don’t get

wrong, I haven’t seen it.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “Oh. . .”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u thought that she wasn’t a very conservative woman, but discussing her spouse’s 'size” face to face with soone was even beyond her acceptable range.

Suzanna didn’t get her response and eventually got bored so she no longer asked and did other things.

Ryan went to pick her up and heard Suzanna say in the back, “Yes, I’ve got a dicine that’s very good. If you get hurt, you can co find

any ti.”

As for where she got “hurt”. . . it was self-evident.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u put her face in Ryan’s neck and felt very embarrassed said thank you in a very small voice.

Outside, Ryan looked at the little one in his arms and saw there were no signs of injury, “Suzanna’s giving you dicine for what?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u shook her head, not wanting to tell him, “Nothing.”

Ryan stared at her flushed ears and raised his brow slightly, but did not ask further.

*

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u had fully prepared when she ca thing ti and had plans to reform Ryan’s house.

Not only did she bring mattresses, but she also brought sheets and quilts, pillows and rugs, curtains and a coat rank. . . everything she needed.

But it order to avoid being found strange by others, she only furnished her and Ryan’s bedroom.

As for the other rooms, they remained intact.

Additionally, she brought Gǔn Gǔn.

She could not keep leaving Gǔn Gǔn at her friend’s house and she couldn’t bear to give him away so she had talked with Ryan for several days before he agreed to let the cat live with them.

Ryan had said: “If one day it goes into one of the people’s bellies, I’m not saving it.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u seriously thought about it. The cat was in the sa family of animals. . . leopards shouldn’t like eating cats?

And most of the ti he was stuck to her side and he rarely went out alone, so it shouldn’t be a problem.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u left him be with confidence.

. . .

Unfortunately, the first night Gǔn Gǔn stayed in the leopard race, he wasn’t very popular.

Gǔn Gǔn had been brought to a strange place so he was a bit uneasy and he wanted to sleep together with her.

Who knew that when Ryan ca back he would ruthlessly drive the cat off the bed and close the bedroom door.

The cat owed outside the door scratching at it and his cry was particularly pitiful.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u wanted to go bring him back but Ryan stopped her.

Ryan said in her ear, “I don’t want to mate with a stupid cat onlooking.”

After a while, the cat found that he couldn’t open the door and he stopped crying and returned to the main house.

The fireplace was low to the ground and he found a place next to it to sleep.

At noon the next day, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u made a comfortable nest for him and placed it next to the fireplace. There were also a lot of his favorite toys.

Gǔn Gǔn seed to like the small nest and rolled around in it for a while, holding a ball of yarn to play.

At night, ht was also very happy to lay there and sleep soundly. He no longer competed with Ryan over Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s embrace.

——Ryan was happy with it.

Of course, if the next bedroom the voices could be quieter in the evening, Gǔn Gǔn would sleep more soundly.

“Wait, Ryan, you haven’t worn it yet. . .” Jǐ Xiǎo ??u urgently said.

“What?” Ryan’s voice was hoarse.

“. . .”

. . .

After a few rustling sounds, Ryan wrinkled his eyebrows and looked at the thing in his hand, still too tight.

“Your human n. . .” Ryan licked his dry lips and said, “Are they all so useless?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s cheeks burst into distressed red. How could he call them useless? Obviously he was “too useful”. . .

The little girl’s mind was simple and everything was written on her face.

Ryan lips touched her ears and confessed generously, “How else could I et my woman?”

“. . .”

So that box of 'strawberry flavor” didn’t co in handy and was abandoned in the corner.

However, after Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s parents returned, Ryan didn’t touch her again. The movent was too intense and accidentally injured her most delicate place.

The next day, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u laid in bed and felt sore whenever she moved her legs.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was a bit unbearable and rembered Suzanna’s words yesterday. She was hesitant to go find her, but when Ryan returned at noon, he had a clay pot in his hands when he walked into the room.

Ryan rubbed her red eyes and asked, “Does it still hurt?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u honestly nodded in pain.

Ryan opened her quilt and held her ankle, saying, “I’ll help with the dicine.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u heard him and quickly stopped him, “No. . . I’ll do it myself.”

Ryan’s lips crooked, “Can you see?”

“. . .”

“I’ll do it,” Ryan said, pulling apart her delicate legs, “After all, I hurt it.”

. . .

After the dicine, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u tightly wrapped herself in the quilt and her cheeks were even hotter than usual.

Ryan stretched out his tongue and licked his claws. Looking at the little on the bed, he showed a rare smile and touched the top of her head, “Suzanna said it has to be applied twice a day, I’ll do it again tonight.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u pushed an arm from under the quilt and pushed at him, particularly embarrassed, “no, you’re going out.”

Perhaps it was because Ryan had left the race too long, he had been busy and was dealing with things almost every day.

But even if he was busy, he would co back every night and eat dinner with her.

Three days later, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s injury was finally better and she didn’t need to take the dicine anymore.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u heaving a long sigh. Now that she was afraid of more dicine, but every ti Ryan watched her while applying the dicine, it felt like he would try to eat her a second ti.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u could only bear such pressure for so long, she’d rather have him directly have her. . .

*

Then one day, Ryan went very early. By the ti Jǐ Xiǎo ??u woke, she couldn’t see head or tail of him.

She dressed and got out of bed. He took so cat food out of her space and fed the cat. Then she prepared to go to the kitchen to eat. At a glance, she could see a bowl of fish stew on the stove top.

Ryan had prepared it for her before he left.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u took a spoon and tasted it. It was a bit cool but it slled and tasted unexpectedly delicious.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u ate the whole bowl and just after eight o’clock, returned to the house holding Gǔn Gǔn.

At around ten, her eyes were drooping and she fell into a doze.

These days, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u had found it particularly easy to fall asleep. She had slept very well last night, but so soon after getting up, she was dozing again.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u didn’t think too much and put Gǔn Gǔn in the house to rest.

She dozed until five thirty that afternoon and it was quiet outside, silent. Ryan hadn’t returned.

Usually, Ryan returned around this ti and Jǐ Xiǎo ??u wasn’t in a hurry, so she sat tat the threshold with his clothes.

It wasn’t until the sky was dark and night had fallen, and still, there was no Ryan.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u thought, had sothing been delayed?

She stood at the door and waited, but she didn’t see him.

So she simply took out her flashlight and prepared to look outside.

Just as she put a hand on the bolt, the door was pushed open from the outside.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u quickly retreated. Seeing Ryan’s face, her vigilant heart could finally let go. “Ryan, how did you get back. . .”

Ryan still felt a little cold as if he had been in the wild and after a long ti, he saw that she was ready to go out and asked, “Where are you going?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u sniffed, “I saw you didn’t co back and wanted to go ask Winter if he knew where you were.” She looked up, “Ryan, where have you been?”

Ryan didn’t answer her directly and stooped to pick her up, speaking into her ear, “I’ll take you to a place.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “What place?”

Ryan held her sides, “You’ll know when we get there.” Jumping onto the roof, he headed off.

The leopard roofs were patchwork and Ryan jumped passed them with ease, his long tail trailing alight behind him.

In the distance, the moon hung in the sky like a huge silver place.

Both bright and faint.

Ryan carried her for a long ti and across several valleys then finally settled on a mountain.

“Here it is.” Ryan said calmly as he placed her on the ground.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u followed him out of the forest and through the thick branches, could finally see overhead.

A splendid aurora burst across the sky from the distant horizon and spreading far.

Countless bright stars floated in the distance as if painted in the sky, rending the night sky in little lights.

The green glow surrounded her and Ryan. It was incredible.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u stared at this wonder and almost forgot her words.

After a long ti, she asked in pleasant surprise, “Ryan, how did you find this place?”

Ryan stepped forward and scratched the red tip of her nice. “Didn’t find. Your man’s been here for several days.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u blinked. He had co here to watch? Was it because of this that he kept returning late?

“Why?” Jǐ Xiǎo ??u asked. Why did he bring her here to see the aurora?

Ryan asked her, “You don’t like it?”

“Like, ah.” Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s eyes were bright and her pink lips tilted up, “Especially like it.”

Then, Ryan couldn’t help but kiss her lips. It seems that these days of hardship hadn’t been wasted.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u blinked and kissed him then turned, “But. . . how did you know I would like it?”

Ryan looked at her, “Don’t humans like it?” Although in his eyes, it was an extrely ordinary phenonon.

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u: “You know a lot about humans.”

Ryan chuckled and grasped her little hand. His voice was low, “I also know that humans like to propose to their spouses under this kind of landscape.”

His fingers were cold and Jǐ Xiǎo ??u gave a slight shiver. Then he lifted her left hand and brought it to her eyes.

She had a diamond ring on her finger and the gorgeous aurora overhead.

“. . .” Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was a little shocked.

Ryan slowly knelt down and took her fingertips, looking at her as he asked, “If I ask you to be my spouse and spend a lifeti with , will you agree?”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u was still in shock, “But, you don’t need to propose. I already promised. . .”

“Now the sa,” Ryan interrupted her and whispered, “I want to give you everything you deserve.”

. . .

After a while, Jǐ Xiǎo ??u opened her mouth, her voice a little wronged, “But, Ryan. . .”

She said: “You put it on the wrong finger. . .”

. . .

. . .

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u sat on Ryan’s leg with the ring on the right finger and carefully observed it. She couldn’t help but ask, “Ryan. . . where did this ring co from?”

Ryan’s palm wrapped around her cold hand and he rested his chin on her head, “Don’t worry about it. I didn’t steal it.”

“. . . was it also an ‘exchange’?”

“The exchange only provided a way, the ring was personally selected.”

Jǐ Xiǎo ??u looked at him and tried to see his face, “Ryan, tell

about where you went, okay?”

The little one’s bright eyes were shining as if reflecting the whole galaxy.

Ryan had no reason to refuse so he wrapped his arms around her soft body and recounted the entire trip.

From the day she went to check in, he had shifted into his other form and walked along the high-rise silently to see the entire city. . .

. . .

While he spoke, the little girl in his arms didn’t move.

Ryan looked down at her face and saw Jǐ Xiǎo ??u’s eyes were closed. Her thick lashes laid against porcelain white skin and her breathing was smooth. She had fallen asleep.

She had just wondered where he had gone and fell asleep in a blink.

Ryan gathered her up in the coat and wrapped her tightly then plunged into the forest and headed back toward the leopard tribe.

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